The Outlook and Openings for Missions

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 17, 1907

The Outlook and Openings for Missions

THE January number of the Missionary Review of the World contains much excellent matter in reference to the progress of the gospel in the regions beyond. The editor has an interesting article on “The Outlook and Openings for Missions,” from which we quote the following excellent paragraph.—

Surely, world-wide opportunity means commensurate responsibility. Woe to the church if Laodicean lukewarmness leaves her lightly to regard and practically to neglect such privilege and duty. Christ’s trumpet-peal is, “Occupy till I come!” There is need of men, of money, above all of prayer. Neither heralds of the gospel nor gifts of money will fill the gap if prayer be lacking; but true prayer will send men and women to the field, and secure a firm hold on “the ropes” at home while others go down into the dark caverns of heathendom. Nowhere burns such a divine search-light, exposing the deformity of selfishness and illiberality, and turning our comeliness into corruption, as when we get alone in the closet with God. But nowhere else do we also find how greatly beloved of God is the humbled soul who, conscious of unclean lips, waits for the touch of a coal from the heavenly altar that gives the tongue of fire, and the voice from the secret place of power, saying, Behold I send thee forth as my witness to the ends of the earth!